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Couples Therapy

Two Blueprints, One Relationship: How Attachment Theory Helps Couples Stop Fighting About the Surface

Working with couples is one of the most rewarding, and one of the most complex, experiences in the therapy room. Unlike individual therapy, where you hold space for one person’s inner world, couples therapy asks you to hold space for two. Two belief systems. Two communication styles. Two histories. And two very different ideas about what love is supposed to look and feel like. As a couples therapist of 16 years, I am passionate about understanding both partners separately and how they are together.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Los beneficios de la Terapia Cognitivo-Conductual (TCC) para mejorar sus relaciones personales.

La TCC es una terapia que ayuda a identificar y cambiar sus pensamientos negativos, a aumentar el control de sus emociones no deseadas y a limitar su comportamiento disfuncional. A continuación, explico en más profundidad cómo le puede ayudar la TCC en su vida cotidiana.

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Counseling

What Should I Look for When Choosing A Therapist?

Are you wondering how to choose a therapist? I have found that one major factor stands out above all others: the connection between the therapist and the client. While theoretical approaches matter, therapy is ultimately a human relationship.

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Anxiety

When Home Stress Impacts Emotional Regulation at Work

Many professionals struggle with emotional regulation at work without realizing that the source isn’t work at all. Stress from home life, like relationship conflict, parenting challenges, financial pressure, or caregiving responsibilities, can spill into the workplace, impacting mood, focus, and workplace relationships.

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Communication

What to Do When Your Therapist Just Doesn’t Get It

Therapy is meant to be a place where you feel heard and supported by someone who understands you. Unfortunately, there may be times when you walk out of a session feeling like your therapist completely missed the point.

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Support

How to Get the Most from Your Psychiatric Treatments: Combining Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation with Talk Therapy

Efficacy rates for TMS are known to be above 85% in some clinics. Remission rates (no symptoms of depression) can be as high as 65%. But what often gets overlooked is the importance of supporting the benefits of the treatment with talk therapy.

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Couples Therapy

Signs a Couple Should Seek Marriage Counseling

It is normal for couples to have their conflicts and ups and downs. In fact, conflict can be healthy when it is managed effectively. Conflict is unhealthy when it consists of yelling, put-downs, or criticism.

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Counseling

Why Seeking Therapy Can Be Hard in Thai Culture and Why It Matters

In Thailand Buddhism teaches us to be compassionate, empathetic, and to allow ourselves to express and process our emotions. However, this often contradicts our culture, and that is where the complexity lies: our religion tells us to do one thing, but our culture tells us to do another. It’s hard to maintain that balance. While Buddhism is practiced and adhered to, it still doesn’t relieve us of those mental health struggles as one might think.

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Couples Therapy

New Job, New Baby, New City: Couples Therapy for Relationship Stress

Big transitions can often bring both growth and stress to relationships, even when that change is something you’ve been wanting. It can challenge the way you and your partner communicate, connect, and support one another.

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Anxiety

Do Teens Grow Out of Social Anxiety? Helping Teens with Social Anxiety!

It’s normal for teens to get a little nervous before giving a class presentation or meeting someone new. But when those nerves become so intense that they start shaping everyday life, it might be more than just shyness. It could be social anxiety disorder.

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Counseling

Making Therapy More Relatable: The Impact of Analogies in Psychotherapy

As therapy often involves delving into complex emotions and abstract psychological concepts, one valuable tool therapists can use to make these ideas more accessible is analogies.

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Couples Therapy

How Can Past Emotional Trauma Affect My Current Relationship?

Emotional trauma can carry over into our relationships. Some signs of this may include an increased sense of anxiety, fear, negative thought patterns, and mood swings.

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Two Blueprints, One Relationship: How Attachment Theory Helps Couples Stop Fighting About the Surface

Los beneficios de la Terapia Cognitivo-Conductual (TCC) para mejorar sus relaciones personales.

What Should I Look for When Choosing A Therapist?

When Home Stress Impacts Emotional Regulation at Work

What to Do When Your Therapist Just Doesn’t Get It

How to Get the Most from Your Psychiatric Treatments: Combining Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation with Talk Therapy

Signs a Couple Should Seek Marriage Counseling

Why Seeking Therapy Can Be Hard in Thai Culture and Why It Matters

New Job, New Baby, New City: Couples Therapy for Relationship Stress

Making Therapy More Relatable: The Impact of Analogies in Psychotherapy

How Can Past Emotional Trauma Affect My Current Relationship?

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